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<\/center><\/p>\nI’m not ready to back down.
\nI’m still mad as hell and
\nI don’t have time to go
\nround and round and round.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nIt’s too late to make it right.
\nI probably wouldn’t if I could.
\nCause I’m mad as hell,
\nI can’t bring myself
\nto do what it is you think I should.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
I made my bed and I sleep like a baby,
\nwith no regrets. And I don’t mind saying
\nit’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
\ndaughter that she oughta hate a perfect stranger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis song by the Dixie Chicks<\/a> sure comes at just the right moment for me. You should see the music video; it’s available via bittorent<\/a>. And (h\/t Atrios<\/a>), you can see them perform the song on Letterman over at YouTube<\/a>.
\nUPDATE:<\/b> Crooks and Liars has a downloadable version<\/a> of the Letterman appearance.
\nUPDATE:<\/b> The Dixie Chicks appeared on 60 Minutes<\/a> on May 14, in an interview with Steve Kroft. The story at the link has some video clips as well, talking about “the comment” and what’s happened since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m not ready to back down. I’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go round and round and round. It’s too late to make it right. I probably wouldn’t if I could. Cause I’m mad as hell, I can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should. I made my bed and I sleep like a baby, with no regrets. And I don’t mind saying it’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she oughta hate a perfect stranger. This song by the Dixie Chicks sure comes at …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-4s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}